First the bouquets, now the bower: Flowers For Kate is quickly coming to full bloom. These abstract interpretations of foliage have been created by set designer Janine Trott as taste of what is to come in the photographic context she is creating for Kate, to be unveiled at our live... [more]
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The anticipation is over! Our first floral tribute to Kate Moss was leaning up against the front door this morning and has been duly added to the project's new Deliveries gallery. Thanks to an anonymous admirer (chicken!) for kicking off, what we're sure will be, a beautiful gallery or, at... [more]
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The SHOWstudio webcams are in place to show what actually goes on in a design studio: 95% of which features people working at computers, as in any other workplace. Every so often, though, a little explosion of irregular activity occurs. Today, it's a menswear casting that Simon Foxton is conducting... [more]
As the concept for Nick's 'time-slice photo sculpture' takes root, it's becoming clear that it's not just blowsy blooms that are required but more graphic organic forms too. Nick has selected a few reference images from Neue Sachlichkeit photographer Karl Blossfeld to help germinate ideas for your deliveries for Kate.... [more]
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The Frankfurter Kunstverein made a nice play around the notion of stand-up comedy and its values -the aspiration to provoke a response- for their offsite project, 'A Delicious Feeling of Confidence' which was dedicated to comedian Lenny Bruce and Andy Kaufman, the self proclaimed practitioner of anti-humour and absurdist performance.... [more]
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Flowers for Kate is a call for exactly that: your floral tributes to Kate Moss! Nick Knight is shooting with the supermodel-cum-designer in a month's time and we're offering all fans of the Croydon beauty the chance to express their love via bouquets, posies and nosegays of lovingly-amassed blooms. So... [more]
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With the fashion film strand of this year’s Birds Eye View festival curated by much-loved former SHOWstudio intern Kathryn Ferguson, all female filmmakers with a passion for fashion have a chance to turn their attentions to all things sartorial.
The submission deadline is January 7th and the criteria is simple: films... [more]
If you had any concerns that the YSL prize would ever find its winner, fear not: Agnes Stamp has identified herself (who works at GQ magazine, no less) and as you can see in this image of its receipt, the case is now in with its rightful owner!
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We printed out the names of all those who submitted 24 correct answers to our competition and asked our most trustworthy studio member (Dorian) to draw one at random. And lo, it was AGNES STAMP!! Contact us immediately, Agnes, and that case is yours!
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The 23rd Hyères International Fashion and Photography Festival are now accepting admissions for their 2008 competition. Due to my rather lax blogging, the application deadline is now just slightly less than a month away, but this still leaves plenty of time for any emerging photographers to enter by downloading a... [more]
Behold, we've just added a new feature to our 24HRS catalogue section. Those of you on larger screens now have the option to 'supersize' the spreads so you can read the featured narrations as well as appreciate the fine layouts.
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Our live broadcast in July provided 24 hours of non-stop YSL entertainment, certainly, then twenty-four innovative film shorts to be sure, but surely you didn't think we'd pass up the opportunity to work with the resultant film stills as well? This 78-'page' online catalogue featuring Nick Knight's selected images from... [more]
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You've until midnight tomorrow night to win that splendid black, patent YSL laptop case as part of our 24hrs competition! All you need to do is answer twenty-four questions on the form provided on the SHOWstudio site and that sleek item of luggage -worth £910 ($1795)- could well be yours!!... [more]
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Inspired by Björk's recent appearance at the Tim Festival in Curitiba, Brazil, latest Volta entrant, Andergast rushed home to squeeze off a birthday hug with his downloadable Björk poster. How lovely! More uplifting gallery moments can be found here.
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Charles and Ray Eames designed a pack of cards that portrayed images chosen to celebrate what they considered important: familiar objects from the animal, mineral, and vegetable categories, to be used at play to demonstrate their conviction that beauty and utility can be found in the everyday. In tune with... [more]
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The culmination of Michael Clark's residency at the Barbican was unveiled last night with the three part 'Stravinsky Project' performed in full. The first two acts have been performed before over the two years, but have been developed and modified for this finale. Each act gives further breadth and understanding... [more]
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Located a thankfully enclosed hop skip and jump away from each other, the Christian Louboutin and A.I. press shows were a welcome way to spend a wet and windy afternoon.
For Spring, Louboutin builds on his artillery of classic shapes and styles, injecting a fresh pep with acid colours, patent... [more]
